The ATP is a continuing education program for licensed psychotherapists, who retain individual legal responsibility for their own clinical work.

Students may also enroll in the ATP if their psychotherapy practice is part of their employment in a licensed clinic, hospital, or similar organization that retains legal responsibility for the clinical work.

Each student must carry adequate professional liability insurance coverage before taking on a supervised psychotherapy case through BPSI. The present minimum coverage is $1,000,000/$1,000,000. Record of malpractice insurance policy and licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts should be updated annually with the administrative office.

In the case of students who are not independently licensed, their work must be covered by the malpractice insurance policy of their employer.

Mail a non-refundable application fee of $50 payable to Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, mailed to the same address.

You will be asked to include past professional information, three references, and a brief personal statement.

Following receipt of an application, BPSI will contact the applicant for interviews with two faculty members. Our goal is for these interviews to be a mutually informative experience in which you will learn more about our training program and community, and we can discuss your professional experience and goals.

The admissions committee meets in May and June, and admissions decisions are usually made before July 1, and often earlier.

Contact Information

For administrative issues in the admissions process, please contact Karen Smolens at the BPSI office, 617 266-0953. The Co-Chairs of the Admissions Committee for the ATP are also available to answer questions: Alison Phillips or Jessica Barton. The Director of Psychotherapy Training, Richard Gomberg, is also happy to talk with prospective students, and he can be reached at (617) 796-8804.

TUITION

2017-2018 Tuition for seminars: $2,200, billed in July.

Our Financial Office can set up a payment plan for your tuition. Please email Paul Brennan, Business Manager, or call him at 617-266-0953.

During the post-seminar period (the time between finishing classes and when graduation requirements are met), students continue to pay tuition to remain students in good standing. The current fee is $490.00 per year and allows access and use of BPSI facilities and mentors.For the 2016-2017 academic year, fee will be $505.00.

There is a small annual increase in dues and tuition. 2018-2019 dues and tuition will be available after February 1st.

The Board of Trustees reviews the budget and decides on tuition charges each year.

SUPERVISORY FEES

The ATP Supervision system was created to ensure that all students can get supervision, regardless of their financial situation. Students who need financial support are required to apply for scholarship money, so please read this information carefully.

Students pay supervisors directly. BPSI’s administrative staff no longer has any role in payments. Supervisors are responsible for billing supervisees and collecting their fees.

All supervisors are paid the standard fee, which is currently $100. The standard fee may be adjusted in the future. It will remain equal to the fee candidates pay supervisors in the analytic institute.

Students with financial need should apply to the Scholarship Committee at BPSI and are eligible for support not only for tuition, but also for their supervision.

The Scholarship Committee meets annually in the summer. Applications for scholarship must be made annually. The deadline for applications this year is June 14, 2017. Students will be notified by July 26, 2017 if they have received scholarships. Applications can (and should) be made even before supervision starts, but scholarship funds will be distributed as reimbursements only after supervision begins.

In order to receive reimbursement for the scholarship portion of their supervision fees, students must send an email to the Chair of the Scholarship Committee, Catherine Kimble catherinekimblemd@gmail.com, indicating the period of time and the number of supervision sessions for which reimbursement is being requested. Requests for reimbursement can be made as often as quarterly. No requests for reimbursement will be honored if received after June 30 for the previous fiscal year, which runs from July to July.

Students are responsible for documenting and keeping track of their supervisory hours in order to be able to prove their eligibility to graduate. Students no longer send a monthly form to the BPSI office.

PERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY FEES

Personal psychotherapy fees are arranged privately with the personal psychotherapist.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SCHOLARSHIPS

BPSI is committed to supporting training for those applicants with limited financial resources. Scholarship funds are limited and distributed based on financial need.

Upon acceptance, all ATP students are eligible to apply to help finance their psychotherapy training. Click here for more information.

Upcoming Events

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018, Nathan Kravis will visit BPSI to talk about his new book On the Couch: A Repressed History of the Analytic Couch from Plato to Freud (MIT Press, 2017). About the Author: Nathan Kravis is[...]